About book The Pema Chodron Collection: The Wisdom Of No Escape: Start Where You Are: When Things Fall Apart (2003)
This book entered my life when I needed it most. It's funny how that seems to happen with me and books. My father was going through chemo and I was riding back and forth between the Eastern Shore and JHU to take him to chemo. My life was turned upside down and this book was a life vest for me. When Things Fall Apart is one of the life changing books that I had the pleasure of reading. Pema is a buddhist and puts the buddhist concepts that deal with suffering so perfectly in perspective that I have read many of her books and then reread them. From the Preface: “The talks in this book were given during a one-month practice period (dathun) in the spring of 1989…. Early each morning these talks were presented. They were intended to inspire and encourage the participants to remain wholeheartedly awake to everything that occurred and to use the abundant material of daily life as their primary teacher and guide.” I found the readings helpful…most fairly short…titles like “Satisfaction,” “Finding Our Own True Nature,” “Precision, Gentleness, and Letting Go,” “Not Too Tight, Not Too Loose,” “Sticking to One Boat,” “Inconvenience.”
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Pema Chodron makes sense of the world for me. She's just fantastic. I prefer her to the Dalai Lama.
—shanighia
My favourite book! Simplistic, grounded and heartfelt...cannot live without reading pema daily!!
—crazye1978
Another beautifully written piece of wisdom from Pema Chodron
—Doug
